Don't Get Robbed at Security

Going through security at the airport always makes me nervous. I’m not afraid of the screening; I’m afraid of being ripped off. Turns out my fears are founded.
This post on the site PracticalHacks.com says that 10,000 laptops are stolen each week at security. 10,000!

That post offers important tips on protecting your possessions. (No. 1 is not to set off the metal detector, so you aren’t forced to go through again and again while your possessions sit on conveyor alone and unprotected.)

I have never been ripped off at a checkpoint, but that probably has everything to do with my overall urban paranoia. We city folk learn from an early age to always know who’s around us, to keep an iron grip on our purses and to never flash cash in public. Not allowing my possessions–any of my possessions, suticase, briefcase, purse, laptop or jewelry–out of my sight during a TSA screening is simply an extension of that general paranoia.

About The Author

Cindy Richards
is a Pulitzer Prize nominated journalist who serves as the Editor-in-Chief of TravelingMom.com. She also is the mom of two terrific teens who have traveled with her since that first, fateful plane ride when one preschooler discovered a barf bag in his seat pocket and his sister, finding none in hers, demanded, "I want a barf bag too!" She has been a reporter, editor and columnist at the Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Tribune, an editor at Chicago Parent and Catalyst Chicago and an instructor in the graduate school at Northwestern's prestigious Medill School of Journalism.